The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights – with UiO Faculty of Law’s Sustainable Development and Human Rights research group, and Social Science and Law Forum, and the Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research at Oslo Met, and the Norwegian Latin America Research Network, invite you to this public lecture by former UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing.

Speaker: Dr. Willy Mutunga, Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Kenya. The lecture will address experiences from administrative reforms, legal training , access to justice, and the development of jurisprudence, including electoral jurisprudence.

This seminar discusses the multiple legal issues raised by the recent Norwegian litigation involving EU vessels catching snow crab in the Loophole and around Svalbard with a license from the flag State, but without a Norwegian license.

Chair: professor Ola Mestad, Head of Department at Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law

The Atlas-Alliance, the Norwegian Center for Human Rights (NCHR) and Plan International Norway observe the UN’s international day of persons with disabilities by organizing a one-day seminar on inclusive development 6. December.

For decades, the Northern Sea Route has been one of the most contentious legal and political issues in U.S.—Soviet/Russian Arctic relations. These issues are becoming more acute as the ice is decreasing and the route is becoming more accessible. William E. Butler, John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, will reflect on issues related to the current legal regime.

The Research Group on Human Rights and Sustainable Developments: Policy and Law Research hosts this seminar with Rebecca Schmidt who will present on the topic: 'Consolidating Regulatory Authority in a Fragmented Context: Public Private Cooperation in the ISO 26000 Standard Setting Process'.

Dr. Sriprapha Petcharamesree has accepted an honorary doctorate at the University of Oslo. She will receive this doctorate iduring a ceremony on Sept 1st, 2017.

She has also accepted the invitation to lecture on international human rights discourse and standards within the context of ASEAN and Southeast Asia (SEA). The lecture examines the human rights situation in ASEAN/SEA as well as the development of an ASEAN human rights regime and the politics surrounding it. Vice-Rector at UiO, Åse Gornitzka will introduce her.

The International Department at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights welcomes you to a seminar with Associate Professor Yifeng Chen from Peking University Law School on his research titled “Labor Law as Social Inclusion: A Proposal for Re-conceptualization of Employment Relationship in Chinese Law”.

The Syrian refugee crisis has brought tremendous challenges to the Middle East region and beyond. This talk by Professor Susan Akram, will be based on research conducted, over the past two and a half years by Boston University’s (BU) International Human Rights Law Clinic that maps out an aspect of the crisis that has received insufficient attention: that is, the interplay of laws and policies at the international, regional and domestic level affecting the rights and status of the refugees out of Syria in the neighboring host states.

On a very short notice, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights has the pleasure of inviting you to a meeting with Victoria Sandino – leader of the sub commission on gender for FARC in the Colombian peace talks.

She will talk about the inclusion of gender in the peace talks and the meeting will have the form of a conversation.